Brian Bull
ReporterBrian Bull is a contributing freelance reporter with the KLCC News department, who first began working with the station in 2016. In that time, Bull worked as a general assignment reporter, documentary and podcast producer, and interim news director. He's now senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and recently worked as a journalism professor at the University of Oregon teaching audio storytelling, public affairs reporting, and story development.
In his nearly 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His work has been heard on NPR Newscasts and programs, and APM's Marketplace. He's also a substitute host for National Native News, and has had articles published in The Eugene-Register Guard, The Oregonian, Indian Country Today, and Underscore Native News. Several photos of CAHOOTS workers he took were featured in People Magazine in July 2021.
An enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe, Bull has worked with NPR's Next Generation Project geared towards diversifying the ranks of tomorrow's journalists. He's been a guest faculty instructor at the Poynter Institute on covering underrepresented communities, and also served as chair for Vision Maker Media, which supports authentic programs and documentaries produced by Native Americans.
Bull has a Master's Degree in American Journalism Online from New York University, and a B.A. from Macalester College where he studied Psychology, English, and Dramatic Arts.
He's glad to be home in the Pacific Northwest, close to his family, tribe, and the Oregon Coast. If only someone had warned him about the grass seed pollen every spring! Bull is married and has three children, and five cats. He enjoys photography, hiking, cooking, the visual and performing arts, and the occasional Godzilla movie.
Read how Brian's desire to spur reflection led him to a career in public media.
Check out Bull's latest NextGen project with regional mentees in Oregon, hosted by Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Brian is the director and lead interviewer for the Public Radio Oral History Project, which aims to build a repository of interviews with many of the industry's founders and innovators.
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Settlements have been reached in U.S. District Court in Oregon in two class action lawsuits against the J.H. Baxter company. -
In an interview recorded May 19, 2023, Bill Siemering talks to KLCC's Brian Bull about his early years working with WHA-AM in Madison, WI, WBFO in Buffalo, and then NPR on flagship productions like All Things Considered. Siemering also created NPR's principles, which has guided and shaped the organization's mission for half a century. -
A group of 60 Oregon veterans got a tour of the nation’s capital this past weekend as part of the ongoing “Honor Flight” series. One shared his experience with KLCC. -
The seventh - and final - emergency water station has been officially installed in Eugene. It’s part of the Eugene Water & Electric Board’s disaster preparedness plan. -
Earlier this week we reported on the mysterious absence of Vaux’s Swifts around Roseburg. The Umpqua Valley Audubon Society wanted help tracking flocks of these migratory birds, and now the watch parties are back on after a thousand swifts were sighted around town. -
Native youth in Eugene revive the traditional camas bake, harvesting and cooking this First Food in underground ovens. The event celebrates Indigenous culture, community, and a centuries-old Northwest tradition. -
A dire mystery has the Umpqua Valley Audubon Society asking the public for help: vast numbers of the migratory birds, Vaux’s Swifts, have disappeared. The hanging questions are: Why? And where have the swifts gone? -
In an interview recorded January 2, 2025, Susan Stamberg talks to KLCC's Brian Bull about her earliest years with the then-new and growing National Public Radio organization, as well as her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, cranberry relish recipe, and thoughs on the public media industry. -
While many people marked the Labor Day weekend with travel and cookouts, more than a hundred took to downtown Eugene Sunday to protest the Trump administration. -
A Maryland-based specialty chemical company has agreed to pay half a million dollars for environmental violations at its former plant in the Linn County city of Albany.
